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US strikes water desalination plant in Iran (www.turkiyetoday.com)

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Does the US really want to play this game? 90% of Israel's water comes from desalination plants, and now we've given Iran the justification to strike back in a similar manner.

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[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 162 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

beacon of democracy? when was that? it was always a shitty racist money first country from the beginning

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago

beacon of democracy? when was that?

They should have put that phrase in quotation marks.

Just because the US calls themselves that doesn't make it true.

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[-] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We can already ascertain (I trust certain sources) that the US has likely lost more military personnel than the Iranians, to say nothing of the trade in production (including trade war limits making some hardware functionally irreplacable), cost, depletion of stockpiles, economic leverage of the strikes. They're really "smoking 'em while they've got 'em" since the Mossad network and Starlink strategy collapsed. Seems like they lost hope.

If anything this attack could be one last stab to slow the development of Iran, which is intruding into very high tech industries dominated by the US and western Europe, such as pharmaceuticals and even nuclear fusion in due time.

The west fears having to unleash the power of certified genius women (and men, but it's much more pronounced how their talents benefit Iranian industrial capacity and affect this war, they are a huge driver of the missile program) the way Iran and China have. Girlbossing and slaying is more about inflating the size of the high value service industry.

The future is bright, actually. Our horizons were limited. I think humanity will become something unrecognizable. One day all people will understand death on their own terms, without metaphor. Do not fear the genius women. Sexual selection is the reason we aren't scraping bugs out of tree bark. This will be even better.

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[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 111 points 1 month ago

Iran already had a water shortage, this is pushing a wounded critter into a corner and expecting it to not fight for its life.

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[-] raicon@lemmy.world 95 points 1 month ago

Learning war crimes from their daddy Israel

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 24 points 1 month ago

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[-] lustyargonian@lemmy.zip 78 points 1 month ago

The decade of war crimes

[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

consequences of letting Israel get away with all their war crimes. they are now normalized.

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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 67 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's genuinely some of the most despicable shit

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[-] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 1 month ago

Did they mistake it for an elementary school?

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago

That was dumb as fuck wow.

Not that it was every in question in this war but...

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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 54 points 1 month ago

Smells Like Trump War Crime

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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 47 points 1 month ago

Attacking desalination plants is not a front the US wants to open. Another horribly idiotic strategic decision by the burger reich. Iran is 3% dependent on desalination, meanwhile US vassals in the region are at 40-90%.

[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 20 points 1 month ago

Still illegal, still monstrous.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago

oh absolutely, it's a war crime plain and simple

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[-] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago

Sounds like terrorism.

[-] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 35 points 1 month ago

It's terrorism when you're brown. When you're white, it's a precision strike.

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[-] idriss@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 month ago

Iran so far has been the adult in the room. I get that a lot of things are fucked up there from economy to freedoms, but boy that's nowhere close to what the US/Palestine occupiers are trying to do to them. I come from a shithole too and I keep shitting on our government for a good reason, but I would definitely prefer them over being holocausted by US/Palestine occupiers.

[-] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 month ago

Iran's issues are literally because of US imperialism. Their economy isn't doing great because of insane illegal sanctions, and their paranoia comes from having been under siege their whole existence. I believe things will get a lot better for Iranians after the aggressors leave the region.

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[-] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, because nothing says "sound military strategy" like depriving civilians of fresh water.

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Remember that cruelty is the point with this administration

Stealing truckloads of cash from the working class isn't enough, they need to also see the poor and defenceless suffer needlessly in order to get their kicks.

[-] Marasenna@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 month ago

this administration

This is US business as usual.

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[-] Don_alForno@feddit.org 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Few acts say "crimes against humanity" better than bombing a country's water supply.

[-] mirshafie@europe.pub 12 points 1 month ago

There's a certain dam in Iraq which could have been targeted at any point during the Iran-Iraq war. Doing so would have guaranteed ended the war in Iran's favor, killing hundreds of thousands of people in a single act in the process.

Some things are not worth doing. Winning like that is not winning.

[-] Dragon@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the only ones that need to be worried right now are Iranians that think they're gonna live.

Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of War

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 month ago

"We are going to help Iranians with their water problems which are caused by their governent!"

Bombs desalination plant

[-] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, desalination plants - the top priority military targets when invading a country to free its people.

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[-] apftwb@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Something something Collective Punishment something something Geneva Conventions

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Something something white exemption from the Geneva Conventions.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fucking shitters. There is no rock bottom.

[-] d3adpaul77@lemmy.org 26 points 1 month ago

finally the US is safe from Iranian unsalted water! mission accomplished Orange man

[-] razen@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

I thought we arent supposed to hurt civilians in a war according to international laws but yelp it is indirect and also US is above all those things

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[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 23 points 1 month ago

Conventions on war crimes are a mutual agreement on restraints both parties place on themselves. They work, as long as neither party wants to lose face or support by being the one to break their word, and as long as both parties can afford to.

Trump never gave a shit about keeping his own word, let alone anyone else's.

I'm not sure Iran can afford to keep theirs now.

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[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

This really is our generation's Viet Nam, isn't it?

[-] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

I think we re-enter the middle east in some capacity every 5-10 years since like desert storm. Its not new. People are just sick of it. It could be weapons, it could be troops. We never really take our hand off the wheel over there.

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[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Every other country in region, Israel included, is much more dependent on desalination for water than Iran as a country. Unclear why they want as many dick moves as possible.

IIUC, on same day Iran apologized for attacking neighbours, this attack was launched from Bahrain, one of the/the most dependent desalination country on earth, that is a rock throw away from Iran.

[-] wheezy@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago

In response to OPs question. I am really wondering if this the point at which the US, especially under Trump, plays the "blame the Jews" card.

We've been watching the right wing shift towards anti Israel views. The tucker Carlson crowd etc.

Maybe Trump is too demented. But, I feel like his defining characteristic is to be good at "reading the room".

I just don't know where it goes with the evangelical Christians that think this needs to happen to bring back Jesus. That's literally the 20% of people that always agree with Trump. But, honestly, at this point. I think they will follow Trump and the pastors will give them a reason to hate the "the Jews".

I just don't see how Trump gets out of this otherwise.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They (bipartisan USA plus UK, Germany and so on) have zero scruples right now about persecuting the antizionist Jews for opposition against Israel, so when the cannibalising of vassals finally hits Israel they will immediately drop all the pretense and go openly antisemitic.

[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

they will 100% turn against Jews, even all those "I love Israel apartheid and genocide, if you're against it, you're antisemitic and hate jews"

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[-] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago

Destroying critical infrastructure like that is a terrible idea. Like, I hate this war, fuck Israel and Trump/GQP but if you're invading somewhere, you don't want that infrastructure damaged/destroyed for your own use.